Food Manufacture

What Food Manufacture does

Food Manufacture is a UK-based B2B digital media platform serving the food and drink manufacturing industry. It operates the FoodManufacture.co.uk news website (publishing since 2003), the Foodmanjobs recruitment job board (operating since 2001), and an ecosystem of supplementary products including a podcast distributed on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, topic-based email newsletters, RSS feeds, editorial and partner webinars, industry shows and conferences, the annual Food Manufacture Excellence Awards, and a supplier/Resource Centre covering ingredients, additives, processing and packaging equipment. The brand is described as the market-leading content product for the UK food and drink manufacturing industry and serves a horizontal persona mix including production and technical managers, senior executives, job seekers, and recruiting employers. Revenue mechanics are not publicly disclosed but, consistent with B2B vertical media, are expected to combine display and sponsored content advertising, recruitment listings on Foodmanjobs, event and awards sponsorships, and partner/supplier insight programmes.

The platform is a brand operating under William Reed Ltd., a privately held UK media and publishing group registered in England (company number 2883992) with its registered office in Crawley. William Reed Ltd. is the controlling parent entity, and Foodmanjobs functions as a wholly-owned subsidiary within the Food Manufacture brand portfolio. Food Manufacture's own direct headcount sits in the 11-50 range, suggesting it operates as a focused vertical brand leveraging the broader William Reed group's shared services, audience infrastructure, and event capabilities. Distribution spans the owned website, social channels (LinkedIn, X, Facebook), podcast platforms, email, RSS, and the integrated Foodmanjobs portal, all directed at UK-based food and drink manufacturers with no disclosed international expansion. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and no external funding rounds, M&A, or ownership changes are evidenced in the source material.

Name

Food Manufacture

Legal name

William Reed Ltd.

Website

https://foodmanufacture.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Food Manufacture is a UK B2B digital media brand serving food and drink manufacturing professionals and executives through daily news, the Foodmanjobs job board, podcasts, awards, events, and supplier resources, operating under parent William Reed Ltd.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

B2B Trade Media

akta.pro primary industry

Food, Cooking & Beverage Magazines (MPAJAEAF)

Keywords

• Food industry news
• Trade publication
• Industry analysis
• Recruitment services
• Industry events

Headquarters

HQ city

Crawley

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Food Manufacture is a B2B digital media brand that publishes daily news, interviews, opinion, regulatory updates, and analysis for the UK food and drink manufacturing industry. Its offering combines a flagship news website, a dedicated job board (Foodmanjobs) for sector recruitment, a podcast series, topic-based email newsletters, industry events and webinars (including the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards), a supplier/ingredients resource centre, and a long-running editorial archive.

Product overview

Food Manufacture is a unified news and content platform for the food and drink manufacturing industry. The core offering consists of the Food Manufacture website delivering daily industry news and business information, supplemented by the Foodmanjobs recruitment portal (the definitive job board for the sector since 2001). Additional modules include the Food Manufacture Podcast (available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts), Industry Newsletters (topic-based email briefings), Events & Webinars (including the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards), a Resource Centre featuring partner insights, RSS Feed syndication, and a comprehensive Archives section spanning back to 2003. The platform is part of the William Reed group and serves as the market-leading content product for the UK food and drink manufacturing industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Foodmanjobs: Job board for food and drink manufacturing vacancies in the UK, operating as part of the Food Manufacture brand.

Products and services

• Food Manufacture Website (FoodManufacture.co.uk)
• Foodmanjobs Job Board
• Food Manufacture Podcast

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Just-Food: Long-running B2B news and analysis title covering the global food manufacturing industry, with similar readership of food industry executives and professionals and the same digital trade-publication business model.
• Beverage Daily: B2B title covering beverage manufacturing and R&D, sharing the same vertical-news sponsorship model and overlapping with Food Manufacture's Beverages category coverage.
• Confectionery News: B2B news site covering confectionery and snacks manufacturing, a direct category competitor in the same horizontal food manufacturing ad market.
• FoodBev Media: B2B media brand covering food and beverage manufacturing with news, reports, and events — a direct head-to-head comparable for advertising and event monetization against UK and European food manufacturers.
• FoodNavigator: Global B2B news service covering food industry ingredients, formulation, and NPD, with sister verticals (BakeryAndSnacks, BeverageDaily, ConfectioneryNews) — same audience and sponsorship model, broader international footprint.
• The Grocer: UK B2B title covering the grocery and packaged food industry under the same William Reed parent, sharing back-office, events, and recruitment infrastructure — directly comparable on UK reach and audience overlap.
• Meat+Poultry (Magazine / Industry News): Established trade publication serving the meat and poultry processing industry with news, features, and events — competes for the same 'Meat, Poultry & Seafood' category budget Food Manufacture monetizes.
• BakeryAndSnacks: B2B trade publication covering bakery and snack manufacturing, matching the category-vertical structure Food Manufacture uses inside its own Categories menu.

Regional players

• Food Industry Asia: Asia-Pacific B2B media brand serving food manufacturers, comparable in audience and product mix but operating in a different geography.
• Food Engineering Magazine: US-focused B2B magazine serving food and beverage manufacturing operations leaders, comparable in editorial scope but anchored to North America rather than the UK market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/FoodManufacture
• Facebookfacebook.com/FoodManufacture
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/foodmanufacture

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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